The End To All Diseases

The End To All DiseasesBy Aubry Scoon

Can disease be cured electronically? A story involving electronics, blackmail, intimidation, government conspiracies, arson, vandalism, theft, bribery and murder!

Nobody can deny that to-days doctors know more than ever about the nature and effects of disease, but as technology advances, many people are all too aware that the results often pose more questions than they answer. The fact is, the more we know, the more obvious it becomes that there is even more that we don’t know.

The growing migration to “alternative” therapies underlines this all too well. Nowadays an increasing number of people are turning to all kinds of seemingly strange therapies where the deficiencies of traditional medicine are all too obvious.

One area that has seen a revival in recent years is electrotherapy- the idea that disease can be cured through the application of electric, magnetic, or electromagnetic fields. There are numerous weird and wonderful devises both on the market and in use today. Some are described in this article, but also as will become clear, this is far from a new area and is simply a continuation of a trend that started in the late 1700’s.

In the 18th century, static electricity was well known. Nobody knows who first proposed experiments to use it as a therapy, but it was not uncommon for major medical schools in Europe to conduct electric experiments on patients, particularly the poorer ones! This continued well into the 19th century and became all the more prevalent following Faraday’s publication of his discovery of electromagnetic wave lengths.

FRANKENSTEIN’S LAB

The early “therapies” in most cases were little more than applied electric shocks. Numerous interesting, novel, and in some cases hilarious ways were found to generate and apply electric potentials, both static and alternating, which were applied seemingly haphazardly to patients.

The results were unpredictable to say the least. Many experiments failed badly, and in some cases the “therapy” was more successful at removing the patient permanently than the disease! However, there was at the same time a growing body of evidence that indicated that some of these “quack” cures did seem to improve the condition of seriously ill patients who had not responded to the traditional treatments.

The discovery of radioactivity, X-rays and Tesla coils only served to fuel this trend. There was a general perception that if something was mysterious, used hidden rays or energies and involved high technology (or even big sparks!) Then in true Frankenstein style, it had to be good. Al attitude which is not entirely absent today! Hence it became almost common practice to expose patients to radiation, electric shocks and magnetic fields.MYSTERY ENERGY

Vendors of “mysterious energy” devises had a field day with these machines. They came up with more bizarre gadgets, belts that gave the wearer shocks to relieve back pain, weird Tesla and Oudin coil contraptions that bathed people in showers of high frequency sparks, magnetic and electric jewelry and so on. A simple Internet search will show that this kind of weirdness thrives as much today as it did then!

It was only a matter of time before it became obvious to anyone other than hard core fanatics that these kind of devices were at best useless and in most cases seriously dangerous. Amidst ever mounting calls for regulation, the medical establishment started to firmly entrench itself against this kind of quackery and eventually succeeded in slowing down the sale of and development of these devices. Unfortunately this was achieved more through oppression and intimidation rather than education.

NEW AGE OR OLD AGE?

Although there was a steady background trade in electrotherapy devices that continued, most people were unaware of it., And it was only in the 1960’s when “new age” solutions to everything appeared that it took off again. Ironically the “new” age material is far from new!

But the excess of the late 19th and early 20th century had taken their toll. The medical establishment was now more vigilant than ever and ruthlessly determined to stamp out quackery. Unfortunately, this literal counter-reaction had the effect of reinforcing the idea that conventional medical techniques were the only ones worthy of consideration and any mainstreamed qualified doctor knew better than anybody else, resulting in its own semi-fanatical mentality. And nobody can deny that many doctors today still show signs of attitude and are quick to condemn any alternative therapy that they know nothing about.

SUPPRESSION

The worst side effect of this attitude was the suppression of serious research into these therapies whilst many serious theories of the time appear ridiculous in the light of present day knowledge, at the time they deserved a better reception than they got. And. of course, the very real and compelling results obtained by many serious researchers were also ignored.

One or two of the old therapies have actually crept back into medical favor. But only after being slowly and cautiously by conservative researchers who followed the proper protocols of placating the medical establishment What is more startling, however. and widely un known is that amongst all the snake oil and quackery of the old electrotherapies were a few gems that did not just seem-to have a sound medical basis or benefit to them, but might potentially surpass the achievements of the best modem therapies in curing major diseases.

This article concentrates on one of them, a fascinating story about a potential cure for nearly all diseases that is a scientific detective story in itself, including, if it is to be believed. Blackmail, intimidation, government conspiracies, arson, vandalism, theft, bribery and murder. It would make a great X-files plot but is truth really stranger than fiction? A QUICK DISCLAIMER

Whilst I have tried to verify everything in this article that I can. the lack of objective material has meant that I have had to rely on second hand sources for a lot of material. I have not personally witnessed some of the effects claimed and present them solely as a matter of interest.

ROYAL RAYMOND RIFE

Our story starts with a man called Royal Raymond Rife. Rife was not the first to experiment in this field, but his alleged results remain most intriguing. His history is sketchy at best, and is mainly reconstructed from his own notes, newspaper reports and anecdotes of his associates. Rife was born on May 16 1888 in Elkhorn Nebraska USA. No records remain of his early history (as far as I am aware) but his work became widely known around 1929.

In 1913 Rife was in Germany and was awarded an honorary PhD by the University of Heidelberg. During the course of the next years he supposedly spent further time in Europe performing work for the US Government and during this period he worked for a time for the Zeiss optical company. It is claimed that he was trained by Carl Zeiss himself. He later became famous for his development of advanced optical microscopes. By 1920, he ended up living ill San Diego, California.

From his own lectures, Rife says that around 1920 he first became interested in the biological effects of electromagnetic fields and their possible therapeutic effect and from that point developed the microscopes to observe the effects of electric phenomena on bacteria. Rife had certainly been influenced by earlier theories and machines. However, the microscopes were the key to his later research and so make a good starting point.

THE MICROSCOPES

Rife was determined to develop an optical microscope with unprecedented magnification and resolution. He proceeded to look at the problems associated with high magnification microscopy from a unique angle. There are quite a few problems associated with building a high resolution microscope, one of the most important being the light itself..

Purely theoretical work of the time indicated that optical resolutions beyond about 20,000 times were impossible because of limitations imposed by the wavelengths of the light itself and effects such as diffraction etc. Also the amount of light that could be focused into an objective at high magnification was limited i.e., the area being looked at is so small there isn't much room for the light to get in!

Vibration was another problem, even modern electron microscopes suffer badly under ambient vibrations, because an otherwise imperceptible movement becomes all too obvious at high magnification, as anyone who has used a modern zoom camera lens will know. Finally, there is the question of how one is to stain the specimen to make it visible.

To expand on that last point, it is usually necessary to apply some sort of stain to any (optical) microscopical specimen because many microscopic cells etc.’ are basically transparent at high magnifications and very little detail can be seen. A stain, however, is just a chemical dye of some sort, and unfortunately since its uptake cannot be precisely controlled, the stain may not properly penetrate the specimen and may even collect in clumps. So under a high enough magnification the stain itself appears as a series of lumps or spots that do not reveal anything much about the specimen. Furthermore, the stain itself, being a chemical. may kill the organism under study. POLARIZATION

Rife decided therefore that he had to dispense with the stain. But how can one see the specimen without a stain? The first obvious answer lay in polarized light.

The theory of polarization is quite simple. Light is an electromagnetic wave, it consists of an oscillating electric field in one plane, with a corresponding oscillating magnetic field in another plane at right angles to the first.

Normal light consists of a mixture of such waves all traveling with their electric and magnetic fields oriented at arbitrary angles relative to each other. Polarized light on the other hand is light in which all the waves have their electric and magnetic fields in the same planes.

Fortunately, polarized light (or any electromagnetic wave) is easy to produce. All you need is some sort of fine grating in which the spacing of the rails is less than the wavelength of the light itself. The waves that have their electric fields lined up with the spaces of the grating pass through. the ones with their electric fields at an angle are blocked by the grating in proportion to the angle, at 90 degrees all light is blocked. This is the principle of polarizing film and sunglasses, which are simply fine grating of this type.

Polarized light is useful, because if you pass it into a compound or specimen, chemicals, stresses or density changes in the specimen itself cause the rotation of the incident plane of polarization. By comparing the variably rotated output from the specimen with a fixed polarized filter, different rotations appear as different shades, and in this way you can see the density changes, stresses or different chemical structures as shades of light .

Incidentally, this technique has been used for many years to identify specific chemical compound is the basis of the designations given to amino acids and complex organic molecules i.e. when you see something like L-argenine or D-tryptophan (both amino acids), the L and the D refer to Levorotatory and Dextro-rotatory respectively, polarizing molecules that twist light to the left (levo) or right (dextro).

FLUORESCENCE

Rife took the reasoning still further. Not only did he decide to use polarized light but he also wanted to avoid the limitations of back lighting a tiny object It was much better if the object could be made to fluoresce in its own light or reflect the incident light. Most biological specimens would fluoresce or reflect but only in ultra-violet or other invisible light ranges. And this depends on their chemical structure. So he hit upon the idea of illuminating the object with two polarized beams of monochromatic light in the UV range that would heterodyne each other and the result of which would be fluorescence or reflection in a visible range. It would be the differences in the wavelengths of two or more illuminating sources that would determine the output.

By means of a complex set of polarizers and rotating prisms, Rife developed a way of making any biological sample fluoresce in such a way that its internal structure was clearly visible. He didn’t need a stain, the light itself became the stain. So in this way one type of bacteria, for example, would appear a specific shade of blue, another red, and so on. The actual color of the resulting “light stain” itself gave a lot of information about the chemical structure of the specimen under study and the polarization helped distinguish fine structural differences.

After a lot of developmental work around 1929, Rife finally produced a prototype of what was later to become known as the “University Microscope” which used the above principle. Not much is known about the early prototypes but they reportedly succeeded in producing unprecedented magnifications, supposedly up to 60,000 times in some cases. This kind of magnification is comparable to a modern day electron microscope.. These instruments were extremely complex with hundreds of parts.

These optical microscopes had one major advantage over the modern electron microscopes. They allowed the study of live specimens. An electron microscope operates in a vacuum and bombards the specimen with high energy electrons; not much can survive that!

BEAM RAY MACHINE

Now that Rife could clearly see bacteria and cells using his microscope he began experiments in which he exposed the samples to various electric and magnetic fields. He then discovered that he could make bacteria and single-celled organisms react to the fields.

Curiously, static fields had little obvious effect but alternating or pulsed fields caused dramatic changes depending on the frequency he applied. Each different bacteria etc., appeared to respond to one specific frequency. And in particular, that frequency ultimately caused the destruction of the organism.

The effect, which modern researchers have duplicated, is very interesting. Supposedly as you approach the critical frequency of a bacterium for example, it appears under the microscope to have what might be best described as a “seizure”. The bacterium changes shape or becomes agitated. A typical example (reported by modern research) is where a rod-like bacterium “seizes” into a “C” shape as the frequency is approached.

The frequency range of the effect varies with the specimen and the intensity of the field seems to become pronounced within five or six Hertz of the critical frequency If you give the specimen a short burst of electromagnetic energy near the critical frequency it seizes and then usually recovers after a few seconds. If, however, you proceeded to expose it to the critical frequency, it literally explodes.

SELECTIVE DESTRUCTION

Rife repeated his experiments with thousands of samples and reproduced the same effect every time. What was even more interesting, however, was that he was unable to find any frequency that would cause human (or other mammalian) tissue cells to explode in the same way.

The implications were profound. He had seemingly found a way to selectively destroy bacteria and other pathogens without damaging human cells. If this method could be applied to a live human patient he could potentially eliminate a specific species of invading bacteria and thereby cure whatever disease that bacterium caused in the patient.

His first task was to catalog the critical frequencies that destroyed specific bacteria. He reasoned that the effect worked through simple resonance and that the bacteria were shattered by a specific frequency much like a wineglass when it is exposed to a specific high pitched sound. So he started compiling a list of what he caned the Mortal Oscillatory Rates of specific pathogens (MORs for short).

MODULATED MISSIONS

At the same time he wanted to refine his equipment to produce the requisite electromagnetic fields. He commissioned engineers to build a device that would emit a field he could tune. He was convinced that light was an important factor and so he wanted the tuneable device to produce light as well as other forms of radiation.

The development of the devise is unfortunately undocumented. But-ray tube which was filled with low pressure helium gas ( a normal X-ray tube has a vacuum) driven by a powerful radio frequency transmitter that caused the gas to ionize and conduct current. The MOR was then created by quenching the carrier at a lower modulating frequency. So the original MOR’s actually consisted of two parameters, a carrier frequency and a modulating wavelength. The end product became known as the “Rife Beam Ray Device”. It allowed Rife to expand upon his experiments.

Rife started conducting lab tests using live animals. Most of his notes were later destroyed and very few remain. But he clearly documented that he was able to apparently cure the animals of specific infections with only short exposures to the beam ray device

We may never know exactly how many experiments he performed, or all of what he found due to the destruction of his notes. But his associates told of literally tens of thousands of experiments he performed and that he became obsessed with his work, spending days at a time without sleep, tuning the device and cataloging effects. His surviving research papers also show evidence of meticulous work.

A CURE FOR CANCER?

Rife became obsessed with the idea of curing Cancer. He found from his experiments that cancerous tumors disappeared at certain frequencies. But his observations showed that the tumor cells did not explode like bacteria. Something was killing the tumor cells, but in a different way.

He then turned his attention to viruses. At that time little was known about viruses. The word virus itself is derived from one of their properties, “filter passing”. A virus by definition was some infective agent that was so small that it could pass through a filter that would block bacteria and other pathogens.

After thousands of experiments, Rife finally announced that he had isolated the “filter passing form” of an infective agent that would reliably induce cancer in any animal it was injected into. His conclusion was simple: cancer was caused by a virus and the machine would destroy viruses as effectively as bacteria, ergo, he could cure cancer.

At this point it is worth mentioning that although Rife isolated the cancer pathogen, there were other researchers in the 1920’s notably Thomas Glover and M.J. Scott who had also done so, and probably earlier than Rife-although Rife was probably the first to actually see the agent with his super microscopes.

In the light of this revelation the tumor cell results became clear, The machine did not directly kill tumor cells. It killed the virus that was infecting the tumor cells. It killed the virus that was infecting the tumor cell, and when the virus died it decomposed into a mixture of chemical poisons that effectively poisoned and killed the host cell. The dead tumor cells were subsequently reabsorbed and digested by the host animal’s immune system.

There was a further implication to this. Rife had noted that when he “cured” animals of various infective agents they often became more ill for a short time after exposure to the beam ray but rapidly recovered. He reasoned that the destruction of the infective pathogens always released poisons (which were normally inside the infecting organism) into the animal’s body and blood stream and that the illness was caused by the effect of these poisons.

Since these poisons are often the very same chemicals that are responsible for the symptoms of a particular illness in the first place, it was therefore not unusual to see a worsening of symptoms after exposure that rapidly improved as the body disposed of the toxins. This effect is well known in medicine to-day, it is known as the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction and it was originally recorded in the antibiotic treatment of syphilis.

Ultimately, Rife succeeded in identifying two different viral agents that caused cancers. One that caused carcinomas (cancers of covering and lining membranes) and one that caused sarcomas (cancers in bone, connective tissue or muscle). He called these two agents the BX and the BY cancer viruses respectively.

PLEOMORPHISM

Rife also found direct evidence of pleomorphism. Ever since the theory was proposed by Antoine Béchamp ( the forerunner of Pasteur and probably the true discoverer of microbial infection) in the 19th century, it had been the subject of much controversy. To put it simplistically, it stated that every pathogen had multiple development cycles with different forms in each cycle i.e. a simple bacterium can transform itself literally into a viral equivalent (or vice versa).

Rife insisted that he had observed that each bacterial pathogen had a corresponding viral form, and depending on the mixture of proteins that the bacterium digested, it could transform reversibly into its viral form and back to bacterial form. He mentioned this in various research papers and concluded that there were only about 10 different classes of pathogens that were responsible for nearly all diseases, and even that it was possible for any pathogen in one class to transform into another pathogen of the same class.

For example, Rife believed that E. Coli, a common bacterium found in most water supplies, was the bacterial form of one cancer virus. It would only produce cancer causing effects in a weakened organism with a specific chemical balance that made it revert to viral form. Whilst discredited at the time, modern researchers are finding increasing evidence that supports the theory of pleomorphism.

It is certainly accepted today that some cancers are caused by viral agents, a theory that was registered in the 1920’s. The “discoverer” of the first officially recognized cancer virus in the late 1940’s, Virginia Livingston, had worked with Rife and already knew of his results as well as those of Glover and Scott. As far as I know she gave some credit to the "Glover's theory" but Rife is never mentioned.

THE END TO ALL DISEASES

During this time Rife had periodically released information to the press about his work. He had described and demonstrated his microscopes several times and had received enthusiastic review's from doctors and researchers who had been allowed to use them. On 3 November 1929 his work was featured on the front page of the San Diego Union newspaper, as an article about his microscopes.

By 1931, Rife had announced his results to various doctors and university medical departments. He was visited by a stream of eminent doctors and researchers, most of whom enthusiastically endorsed his work. One of Rife's supporters was Dr Millbank Johnson, president of the Southern California branch of the American Medical Association and one of the board of directors of Pasadena Hospital. Another was Dr Arthur Kendall, Director of Medical Research at Northwestern Medical School in Illinois.

On 20 November 1931, Johnson arranged a banquet for Rife at his estate in Pasadena California, which was attended by 44 of the most eminent medical personnel of the day and at which they honored him as the man who had found “The End to All Diseases’” From this point on the story takes a twist. Many incidents referred to are documented and historically verifiable but are the subject of great controversy. Also the chronology is occasionally confused.

A CLINICAL TRIAL

In early 1934, Johnson rented premises in San Diego for Rife to begin clinical treatments. Under his instructions, the University of Southern California arranged formal clinical trials of the Rife Beam Ray device. They appointed a special committee of top doctors to oversee the project including, apart from Johnson and Kendall, Dr Rufus Klein-Schmidt (President, University of Southern California, Dr. Edward Kopps (Metabolic Clinic, La Jolla, California), Dr George Fisher (Children’s Hospital NY), Dr Karl Meyer (Hooper Foundation, San Francisco), Dr. Whalen Morrison (chief Surgeon , Santa Fe Railway), Dr George Dock and Dr. Alvin G. Foord, a pathologist

Sixteen cancer patients from the Pasadena County Hospital volunteered to tie treated with the machine. The brief was for the patients to be treated at Rife's clinic in San Diego and after three months the doctors would perform an in-depth examination of any of the surviving patients at that time. Rife reportedly treated the patients with three minute exposures to the beam ray device at the cancer frequencies once every days.

Initial daily treatments were suspended due to extreme Jarisch-Herxheimer reactions. At the end of three months, however, all the patients were still alive and were examined. The doctors were amazed to pronounce that 14 of the 16 showed no signs of cancer and were pronounced clinically cured. The remaining two went for further treatments. Rife reasoned that maybe they were infected with a mutated form of the cancer virus and made some slight frequency adjustments. Four weeks later the remaining two patients were examined and also pronounced clinically cured. The results were stunning, it was a major breakthrough. There is some discrepancy in the accounts of what happened next, but the most likely explanation is that the members agreed to do further work before publishing the results.

CONFLICT BEGINS Johnson then introduced Rife to Dr Mildred Schram of the international Cancer Foundation in Philadelphia. However on hearing of the work, Schram allegedly made demands for experiments that Rife insisted would not and could not work. Following much argument, he eventually refused to have anything further to do with the foundation. Schram supposedly admitted years later that Rife had been right.

In the meantime (1935) Johnson had set up a clinic in Los Angeles to treat people using the beam ray device and Kendall and others were continuing experiments and treating people with it. In 1937, the medical committee who oversaw the clinical trials ended up arguing over when and how they should should release with no actual decisions ever being reached. By now they had plenty of evidence to support Rife’s claims but they found themselves pressured by the medical authorities and feared that they would not be believed.

A press release went ahead, however, and an Friday 6 May 1938, the San Diego Evening Tribute published a front page article entitled “Dread Disease Germs Destroyed by Rays. Claim of S.D. Scientist” However, the clinical trials were not mentioned and Rife was cautious not to claim that the device represented an absolute cure for cancer.CONSPIRACY THEORY

During this time, a new player emerged. Dr Morris Fishbein was editor of the Journal of American Medical Association between 1924 and 1949. However Fishbein was a very rich and powerful man who by that time owned all the stock of the AMA and had extremely powerful political connections. Fishbein approached Rife with an offer to buy the exclusive rights to the beam ray technology. Rife refused.

The details of the offer are unknown but Fishbein had made similar offers to other inventors of medical technologies claimed to cure cancer. In one case Fishbein made an offer to the creator of a herbal cancer cure called Harry Hoxey in which Fishbein would receive all profits from the invention for nine years and thereafter, at Fishbein's discretion, be would pay 10 per cent of future profits to Hoxey. When Hoxey refused, Fishbein effectively destroyed him. Hoxey was allegedly arrested 125 times in 16 months at Fishbein's instigation. The changes never stuck but Hoxey was ruined.

Fishbein did the same to Rife. AMA officials started visiting doctors who were using Rife's machines and informed them they would be struck from the medical register if they did not stop immediately. Many gave in and surrendered the machines to AMA investigators or allowed the machines to to be destroyed. Others held out and refused. Many were arrested or had equipment and notes seized and destroyed by FDA (Federal Food and Drug Administrator) agents.

Fishbein refused to allow publication of any reference to Rife’s work in the AMA journals and also supposedly pressured other medical journals insisting that they should not publish anything about Rife’s work because it was all a fraud. A number of doctors actively opposed this, including Johnson. But many of the doctors who had a attended Johnson’s banquet for Rife in 1931, fearing the loss of of their medical licence , started denying that they had ever heard of Rife, even though they had been photographed with him at the banquet.

BEAM RAY CORPORATION

By his time, Rife had established his own company to market the device. The corporation became known as Beam Rays Inc. However, in 1939. an engineer called Philip Hoyland, an employee of the company brought a lawsuit against Beam Rays Inc. Claiming that he had developed the initial theory that was now claimed by Rife. Despite the fact that he had only joined Rife around 1937 and Rife had published details long before that.

Another factor that emerged at this time was that there was some difference between Rife`s original machine and newer Hoyland variants that the company had been shipping.

Rife’s original machine created the MOR frequency using a variable carrier wave which was then modulated with a super-regeneration wave at other frequencies (ranges of 15kHz to 11MHz appear in Rife's lab notes). Table I gives carrier frequencies in kilohertz and super regeneration wavelengths in meters, compiled from his original lab notes.

The MOR frequencies studied by Rife were mostly in the hundreds of kilohertz to megahertz range. The details of the difference between the original Rife and Hoyland machines are unclean but Rife complains in a letter of 14 May 1939 to Dr Gonin, head of the London School of Tropical Medicine about Hoyland's machines : “I spoke only Friday evening to a Mr. John Chanblin, a radio man now connected with Beam Rays inc„ about the redesign. and building of a devise according to the old original Rife Ray principles; as the present instrument has been so deviated away from that old principle that it is nowhere near the same.”“I know nothing about the experimental machines you have, as I was never even asked to see them or to pass on them in any way before they were shipped to you. But Henry stated in one of his last letters that he had tried of them on a culture of his bacteria and it had failed to do the work. I would consider from that, that those devices which you have are merely working on a harmonic and not a true frequency; and in our research on electronics, we definitely know that there is no possible way of controlling electrical harmonics of a frequency”

Nobody knows why Hoyland started a lawsuit he couldn't possibly win, or why he produced non-working Rife machine variants except that it is alleged that Hoyland's legal costs were funded by the owner of a major pharmaceutical company. Rife's invention was potentially lethal to the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry. Rife eventually won the lawsuit but the costs bankrupted Beam Rays Inc, putting it out of business. And Rife's reputation had been damaged by inferior machines that had been shipped out by Hoyland using Rife's name. After this, Rife started drinking heavily and became depressed and discouraged.

VANDALISM and Arson Around this same time Rife`s laboratory was subject to a spate of thefts, his microscopes vandalized and finally, it was burned to the ground (and most of his notes destroyed) in an arson attack. Nobody was ever caught or prosecuted for it. Another doctor, a Dr Nemes who had set up an independent laboratory and confirmed some of Rife's results was killed in a laboratory fire and all his notes and research lost. A third laboratory working on confirming Rife's work, the Burnett Laboratory, also mysteriously caught fire and burned to the; ground with all research destroyed.

In 1940, two other doctors who had supported Rife, Cooperson and Clayton were raided by Federal officers who confiscated their equipment and notes. Later each was found dead, supposedly having committed suicide by poison.

In 1944, Johnson arranged a press conference and let it slip that he would announce publicly the clinical results and that the cure for cancer had been found. There are allegations that Johnson had already been approached by “representatives of the pharmaceutical industry” who offered him money to suppress information about Rife's work. Supposedly he refused. He had also certainly been pressured by Fishbein. The night before the press conference, however, Johnson died suddenly and mysteriously and all his notes were pronounced as "lost" by the executors of his estate. His death was recorded as "accidental death" although I have no details. There are claims that his body was later exhumed by FBI investigators who concluded that he had been murdered by poison.

Dr Arthur Kendall, one of Rife's most prestigious and influential supporters suddenly accepted an unprecedented pension of $250,000 to retire to Mexico and effectively disappeared from the scene. George Dock another of Rife's clinical team, and also highly respected and influential, also took a huge and unprecedented gratuity to retire early. Many of Rife's supporters were convinced this was the work of drug companies who were anxious to suppress a technology that would make virtually all drug treatments obsolete.

Rife was hounded by the FDA and the AMA. He was unable to practice without official intervention and continued a steady decline into alcoholism. This didn’t stop him, however trying to continue his research. In the early 1950’s Rife teamed up with a man called John Crane under the auspices of a new company (owned by Crane) called Life Labs Inc.

LIFE LABS INC.

Here the record becomes confused again. Crane worked on the development of several new machines. One in particular was quite different, it used a pad which had to be placed in contact with the body. Crane claimed that he and Rife had developed the machine together, and Rife was certainly associated with the company because he wrote letters on its behalf. But apart of Crane's statement there is no direct evidence to suggest that Rife developed or endorsed the pad machine. Because of this there is some confusion as to what constitutes a real “Rife Machine” because some people (particularly those selling such devices) claim the former and others the later.

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